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Saturday, 6 March 2010

A Blast From The Past

As I have nothing in particular to write about I thought you may like to see a few of the earlier prestige panes I picked up at the auctions recently.

Whilst I was studying them for inset or short bands , It got me to thinking how refreshing it was just to have only two PBs a year. There are other panes I picked up (later than these) but I do not think Larry or my self have shown these pictures or described the stamps on these panes up until today.

The third pane (below) contained 4 x 1st, 2 x 35p and 2 x 40p it is from The Brunel Prestige Booklet produced by Enschedé and printed in Gravure (Issued : 23rd Feb 2006)

Number four on my list (below) is The Machin pane containing 4 x 50p and 4 x 1st NVI PIP from The Victoria Cross Prestige Booklet produced by Enschedé and printed in Gravure (Issued : 21st Sep 2006)

The fifth Pane (below) has more new stamps, 4 x 1st NVI PIP and 4 x 5p from Inventions Prestige Booklet produced by De La Rue it is printed in Gravure (Issued : 1st Mar 2007)

The next booklet issued was for the 40th Anniversary of the Machin, It contained no less than 3 Machin panes, all produced by De La Rue and printed in Gravure. The issued date was 5th june 2007.

I have not shown these as we covered the booklet and the 40th Anniversary extensively at the time of issue. However just to refresh your memories I will describe the panes for you. The first Machin pane contained 4 x 2p, 2 x 48p and 2 x 46p.

Sadly I am still working on the Prestige Booklets pages on my website. I must knuckle down and add some more content there. I think to date I have covered up to number 22 (a long way to go)which is the Profile on Print booklet. This is the one that was issued 16th February 1999 and contains 5 panes of Machins by 5 different printers and 5 x different print processes